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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 13:16:56 -0500
From:      Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Dima Ruban <dima@best.net>, Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel permissions 
Message-ID:  <E0yQFh3-00071V-00@set.spradley.tmi.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:45:29 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417013537.8952E-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> 

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Robert Watson writes:

> With all this discussion of various things that might or might not improve
> the security of a FreeBSD system, I'd like to propose the FreeBSD
> Hardening Project.  

Good idea.

[...]
> Some other thoughts I had were instructions for rolling a custom system CD
> + possibly a boot disk to create read-only machines for use as proxy
> servers or routers.  Swap + MFS would be the only writable areas of the
> system, and neither of those would persist over boot.

I think this is a *particularly* good idea.  Much less to worry about if 
most if the important stuff is read-only or write-once-read-many.

[...]
>   Robert N Watson 
> 
> 
> ----
> Carnegie Mellon University  http://www.cmu.edu/
> Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/
> SafePort Network Services   http://www.safeport.com/
> robert@fledge.watson.org    http://www.watson.org/~robert/



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